GIRL MURDERED.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 8 December 1926, Page 2

GIRL MURDERED.

THEN OUTRAGED. MELBOURNE, Dec 3. ' The mutilated body of Emma Hill, aged seventeen, was found by the police on the bank of the Ya.rra. 'rhe discovery was made as the result of the statements of George Devitt, aged twenty-seven, who in the early hours of the morning, hailed a taxi-cab and told the driver that he wanted to be driven to the police station. Devitt’s throat was cut, ami he was covered in blood. When lie arrived -at the station he told the police that he had left the girl dead near the river after cutting her throat, and then cutting his own. After sever:’.] hours’ search, the police found the girl’s body. There were evidences of a desperate struggle, and an examination revealed that even after the girl’s throat had been cut she had been subjected to outrageous treatment. The eirl had been in the habit of going out with Devitt, but had lately lobl him she did not want to go again with him. After this repulse, Devitt • who is in hospital and guarded by the. police) became moody, and wrote to the girl arranging a meeting last night.